I kept asking about how he came with these ideas and what his motivation was—I was so impressed – I came back to the world bank and I asked my whole team a very simple question- have we taken into account the ali baba factor in how we think about everything we do because if ali baba is the way to develop the world then we might not be doing the right things at at all

 – I was so impressed because jack had a deep moral vision for what he was doing in his business

Now the way he processes and understand data is better than anyone else

– I asked him what about this company, that company and jack said we eat them for lunch because we process material so much faster than they do – its because we have been working at it for longer and have figured it out

He told me how he took farmers who were losing their livelihoods and helped them form transport companies – he told me how he went to poor communities and gave a young woman a computer – and then as she started showing the villagers on ali baba that they could get a washing machine for a third of price that they paid in the local community but when the truck came out to deliver the washing machine ali baba had also organised that some of the village produce was transported back

.. he created an economy that no mater how poor how distant you were , you had access to the global market – the first thing he told me I will never forget – my dream is that a grandmother wakes up in a kansas orders something from a rural Kenyan craftsperson and gives it to her grandson in england – that’s my dream

You know there is a lot of talk about how the global market capitalism is so unfair and its true that there are so  many unfair things but one of the thongs we know is china lifted 700 million people out of poverty –one of greatest achievements in history it was because of more trade not less trade

There are certain principles we understand that could potentially lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty – I believe that jack ma’s understanding that what needs to be done to help small and medium enterprises to encourage entrepreneurship even in the poorest communities is potentially the one way that we can get to a world free of extreme poverty, in which we grow the economy in a way that is inclusive

Jack has it in his dna , ali baba has it in his dna, he understand a profound truth that  I think will contribute tremendous amount to the united nations – now the only thing is we have to listen to him

and we have to push him too, ;push him to challenge us to think differently about how we are going to create this world where everyone can participate, everyone has access to the market, everyone has access to capital – you can go online and jack can tell you in 30 seconds whether you can get a loan from me or not – these are the kinds of innovations that give us great hope and without them I despair on our chances of ending poverty

Jack congratulations-  all of us in multilateral system are so much better off now that you are one of us and I help you will help us shape the future

HARRISON OWEN 7 WONDERS

breaking #learninggeneration news last week october 2016: if you are not at a usa or china rehearsal of rachel  plus in the next fortnight - recommend you do a flash search of what this intel inspired school in a computer looks like- of course one can start to add on missing curricula alongside those rachel is already channeling- queries chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

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7 wonders of harrison owen - rough dates included eg in wonder #1 date  1983

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#1 83 what do (teachers of) 5^th graders (and all who grow up civil society) need to know about system transformation and action networking

in 1983 harrison owen was convening the worldwide conference for experts in system transformation- like conventional conference producers he assumed his delegates wanted famous podium speakers- feedback from the conference required harrison to radically change his mindset as facilitator of what this profession wanted- they preferred the coffee breaks to the speakers sessions- why?

• It was their once a year opportunity to connect from around the world: to find out who linkedin with who in mutually most creative ways, as well as to interpersonally explore cultures etc
• Contexts of  specialism in system transformations varied; in 1983 a leading segmentation involved those who saw community building as only about conscious aspects of how humans related to each other, and those who saw computing technology as about to scale virtual communities as a defining livelihood change of the next generation of human being

#2 84 which stories do alumni of harrison owen value most in hubbing how the world of communities understands open space technology as a breakthrough in mediating future and history by empowering positive emotional intelligence

in practical terms open space technology involves “how to” maximize actionable consequences of up to 5000 people meeting live over a 3 day period- Harrison literally hosted the first open space by surprising the global 1984 delegates of system transformation that all of the conference would be in coffee-break networking form; note how the stories that emerged from these 3 days were to transform the actual profession of system transformation; essential stories of alumni of OST include

1 there is only one law – the law of 2 feet during the open space (ie if a group are conveneing a session that you dont have positive contribution to- politely leave and join another group)

2 the story of the people who come are the right people : this is used to open the space to remind participants of the context they came to innovate and joyful permission that brings one and all; it also can be used by everyone to verify if the invitation process was diverse enough to have a chance to be the source transformation between future and past ; fast forwarding 30 years and 300000 open space hostings the greatest system transformations have come from where representative of every rival and conflicted perspective came to the open space- which case stories recall open space most joyfully?

3 OS as a local to global movement - the story of you haven’t lived if you haven’t experienced open space technology – this story is important to Harrison Owen alumni as it a reminder of the spiritual responsibilities of hold a space open; it is important teachers for appraising how they change education to empower students

#3 84 space- what  is the self-organising dynamic of natural systems and open space as a human technology

#4 84 what dimensions of open (eg every way in which collaboration can be more creative than competition alone) can help transformation sustain value multiplication going forward- a tipping point between futures people need to be entrepreneurially free and a history they were trapped in

 #5 2002? what is the practice of peace –what extra special powers do POP alumni of HO need to celebrate

#6 2010 what are the differences between members of the net generation who had been introduced to human tech skills of open space ahead of experimenting with the new machine technologies

if a blockchain had existed to contract major open spaces to human memory would that have helped youth unite nations and improved the odds of human species and natures evolution playing out in sync; world leading educators like jack ma are already composing a blockchain of partnerships in bottom-up billanthropy-is there some way to mash up open space contracts and philanthropy and aid contracts to include hubs and hackathons, nd to integrate youth in triangularising public and private partnerships (western case CNN Turner family spent billion dollars on forming UN Foundation around PPP- would YPPP have been better for greatest #learninggeneration and is that what the Hangzhou Consensus invited G20 country leaders to openly map together)  Simpler question- which of these 5 national Aids; Australian Aid, British Aid, Canadian Aid, Chinese Aid, USAID  is least likely to work with the others and what risks to whose youth will such isolation cause 

#7 2015 –if sustainability goals require #learninggeneration to be the most capable humanity has ever seen in celebrating transformation of community building,

whats

1. the connection between open space and education
2. how does the generation of valuing borderless open society culturally mash up machine technologies with opens pace as number 1 human technology
3. why do servant leaders of big business, government and non-government -as well as teachers - need courage to see open space technology as integral to urgent pro-youth innovations 
4. still missing in the way that we help 5th graders explore how system designs lock in what future possibilities will be open to them
5. assuming the chances of changing schools time accounting form 40 minute sessions to 3 days isnt going to happen in one leap- what sorts of 40 minute formats of open space technology can we plant into schools 

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Jagdish Gandhi  - 7 wonders

7 wonders Gandhi

55 #1 how can one family sustain Gandhi village montessoris from 1920s villages to 21^st C big cities

#2 how to live up to world citizen responsibility of being the only unesco awarded school for innovating peace curriculum

#3 what can lucknow do about the finding that most valuable time students exchanges of cultures can be started up is pre-adolescence

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fall 2016's update from BlockChainOpen.com

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for those of us who started Entrepreneurial Revolution debate 40 years ago that learning has to be the main 21st C economy the first shock is that the word of the rich, "social media" and public service left it as late as 2014 to inaugurate the first million dollar teacher awards

the second shock is how little learning media give to this- so what did the winner do that other teachers (or schooling systems) can now be emulating - what can be learnt from the the runners up; can we broaden the prize - either more philantropists and so more prizes; or other prizes more targeted at teacher collaborations- why arent their reality tv apprentice shows led by worlds greatest teachers instead of over-trumpers - what happens to a nation who idolises the wrong sort of wizard apprentice (search right kinds eg MIT sorcerers apprentice  fir menu of my favorite square mile (kendall station boston) walking tour -where yours? chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk) 

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#4 once a city’s partners have demanded you run a school larger than almost all university campuses, what are the advantages of being the meta-hub of the world’s largest school

#5 if your values are gandhian (prohibiting you from building up personal assets) how do you find a way for rest of the world to action learn with you given markets of education and aid are dominated by top down fund raisers not bottom-up microfranchise solutions replicators

#6 what happens when daughters who grew up in the school gain world experiences (eg word bank , oxford uni) that you never had but are not fully respected back in lucknow by your generation of grandparents and parents

#7 as sustainability of the entire human race increasingly depends on #2016-2030 being the greatest #learning generation- how do your schools quarter of a million alumni linkin to virtual and real modes of valuing learning as core of 21^st C economy